Yellowfang's Secret/Cliffnotes

These notes are brief, noting major events and minor events in Yellowfang's Secret that will be of consequence later. They are intended to be used as a reference for those looking for specific events for re-reading and the book discussions.

Prologue

• Goosefeather and his apprentice Featherpaw, of ThunderClan, Hawkheart of WindClan, Sagewhisker of ShadowClan, and Milkfur with her apprentice Bramblepaw, of RiverClan, meet near Highstones.
• They head toward the Moonstone.
• Goosefeather makes Featherpaw a medicine cat apprentice.
• Featherpaw sees a StarClan cat, Mallowfur, and says he has missed her a lot.
• He later meets Molepelt, an ancient ShadowClan medicine cat.
• He tell Featherpaw that a darkness will be brought by a ShadowClan medicine cat and will cause harm towards ThunderClan.
• Molepelt's old apprentice, Hollowbelly, appears and tells Molepelt he shouldn't be telling everything to Featherpaw, and that they didn't know if it was time.
• After Hollowbelly and Molepelt leave Featherpaw wonders how a ShadowClan medicine cat could harm ThunderClan.

Chapter 1

• Yellowkit, Nutkit, and Rowankit are playing in the ShadowClan camp and Yellowkit tells Nutkit to be a WindClan warrior, because she wants to show off her battle moves.
• Raggedkit and Scorchkit interrupt their game, boasting about the battle moves they know, and demonstrate for the younger kits.
• Nutkit suggest to his littermates that they should go catch mice in the brambles, and Raggedkit teases Nutkit, causing Nutkit to call Raggedkit a kittypet.
• Yellowkit remembers overhearing the elders discussing who Raggedkit and Scorchkit's father was, and how it was possible it was a kittypet.
• The five kits are about to get into a fight when Brightflower calls Yellowkit and her littermates back to the nursery.

Chapter 2

• Cedarstar calls a Clan meeting to make Scorchkit and Raggedkit apprentices.
• Yellowkit feels as if she has a thorn in her paw, but when Brightflower looks there's nothing there.
• After the meeting, Yellowkit goes to see Sagewhisker. Yellowkit waits outside while Sagewhisker treats Lizardstripe, who had stepped on a thorn.
  • When Lizardstripe comes out Yellowkit's paw has stopped hurting, and she can't find a trace of anything sharp in the ground.

Chapter 3

• Yellowkit and Nutkit wakes up in the night with stomachaches.
  • Brightflower notices them and goes to get Sagewhisker, but first asks if they ate anything.
  • Nutkit tells her that he found, and ate some of, a dead sparrow. Yellowkit says she didn't eat any of it, but Brightflower doesn't believe her.
  • Sagewhisker comes over with herbs, and Yellowkit asks if she's going to give them herbs to make them sick. Sagewhisker says yes, and feeds them the yarrow.
• Then next day Yellowkit wakes up hungry, but remembers that Brightflower told her not to eat anything.
• Yellowkit goes by the elders as Lizardfang tells a story of how they drove out a WindClan warrior.
  • Yellowkit passes by the fresh kill-pile and is tempted by a mouse, Sagewhisker stops her.
  • To entertain Yellowkit, Sagewhisker teaches about herbs. Sagewhisker claims Yellowkit to have a real aptitude for herbs.

Chapter 4

• Yellowkit worries that Silverflame is getting sick.
• Yellowkit sees Brackenfoot, her father, training Raggedpaw.
• Yellowkit, Rowankit, and Nutkit have their apprentice ceremonies.
• Yellowpaw feels a sharp pain in her belly in the start of the tour with her mentor, Deerleap.
  • They go back to camp, but Yellowpaw sees that Sagewhisker is busy, so they return to the tour.
• When they come back to camp, Brightflower reveals that Silverflame is on her way to StarClan.

• Yellowpaw goes to see Silverflame.
  • Yellowpaw thinks that Sagewhisker should do something to help Silverflame.
• Yellowpaw goes for a walk with Littlebird.
• Yellowpaw goes hunting with Deerleap, her mentor.
  • She catches a blackbird and a lizard.
• Yellowpaw sees Nutpaw and Rowanpaw by the fresh-kill pile with fresh-kill that they caught.
• Deerleap suggests a joint training session with all the apprentices.
  • When they get to the training hollow, Raggedpaw and Scorchpaw are practicing moves.
    • They use a move that helps when a cat leaps at you.
  • They do it again with the apprentices switching roles.
  • Yellowpaw then practices with Nutpaw, and Rowanpaw with Scorchpaw.
  • Rowanpaw gets injured, and Yellowpaw collapses too, feeling her sister's pain.
  • Crowtail scolds Scorchpaw because he didn't have his claws sheathed.